Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland's majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defe
Voices from the Other World
β Scribed by Mahfouz, Naguib; Stock, Raymond
- Book ID
- 109191770
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307430076
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: ΩΨ¬ΩΨ¨ Ω ΨΩΩΨΈβ NagΔ«b MaαΈ₯fΕ«αΊ, IPA: [nΓ¦ΛΙ‘iΛb mΙΔ§ΛfuΛzΛ€]; 11 December 1911 β 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
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